Need to identify xpath for android element using appium
Just try this u can access easily
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@class='android.widget.FrameLayout' and @bounds='[418,564][780,885]']")).click();
Keeping in mind the fact that //foo[1] returns all foo nodes which are the first children of a their parent (not the first child of the foo node) try something like this:
//ScrollView/LinearLayout/LinearLayout[2]/LinearLayout/RelativeLayout
Not tested, but it should give you all the RelativeLayouts which are a child of a LinearLayout which is a child of a LinearLayout which is the second child of a LinearLayout which is the child of a ScrollView.
Right now there's a couple nasty bugs with XPath on android that explain the behaviors you're seeing. They are scheduled to be fixed in the 1.3.1 release
- You can't search by root nodes.. link
- Unfortunately, this means that a verbose xpath is likely the xpath(pun) to success
- You sometimes get 240 of an element when you only have 16 link
Ideally, you could look for the resource-id of the android.widget.LinearLayout parent of all 16 RelativeLayouts and then do something like:
//android.widget.LinearLayout[@resource-id="foo"]/android.widget.RelativeLayout
Your verbose solution did not work because you gave one of the layouts a position of [2].
Here it is, fixed:
//android.widget.LinearLayout[1]/android.widget.FrameLayout[1]/android.widget.RelativeLayout[1]/android.widget.ViewAnimator[1]/android.widget.FrameLayout[1]/android.widget.RelativeLayout[1]/android.widget.RelativeLayout[1]/android.widget.RelativeLayout[1]/android.widget.ScrollView[1]/android.widget.LinearLayout[1]/android.widget.LinearLayout[1]/android.widget.LinearLayout/android.widget.RelativeLayout
.... please, please use the first solution.
I'm looking into a solution for your problem using UiAutomator locator strategy, but no answers yet (because .fromChild() and .fromParent() seem to be broken)